Faucet



Aug. 4, 1925.

' J. A. COSTELLO A FAUGET Filed July 3, 1924 Infenor:

Patented Aug. 4, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

YJ'OS'EPII A. COSTELLO, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR T0 THE CLEVELAND BRASS i MANUFACTURING- COMPANY, F CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION 0F OHIO.

FAUCET.

Application led July 3,

To all whom t may concer/n.'

Be it known that I, JOSEPH A. COSTELLO, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Faucet, of which the following is a speciication.

This invention relates to improvements in faucets, and pertains more especially to a faucet well` adapted for use in connection with a metal oil-barrel and comprising a casing having an` interior chamber which has a fluid-outlet and a fluid-inlet which is surrounded by a seat for a valve employed in controlling communication through said inlet and having a sliding or rectilinear movement from an open position to said seat and capable, after said movement of the valve into engagement with said seat, of a limited rotation to the right and adapted to be forced, during said rotation, into fluid-tight engagement with said seat.

`One object of this invention is to provide a faucet of the character indicated with conveniently applied resilient means acting to retain saidejvalve in engagement with thc valve-seat afwithout being materially interfered with by and without interfering with the hereinbefore mentioned rotation of the valve.

Another object is to avoid the necessity of manually holding the valve in an open position against the action of said resilient means throughout the time required for the run of a given quantity of liquid from the hereinbefore mentioned inlet to and through the aforesaid outlet.

Another object is to produce a faucet of the character indicated which comprises simple and efficient means for preventing material or objectionable circumferential displacement of the valve during the aforesaid endwise movement of the valve and without interfering with a satisfactory discharge of all liquid entering the hereinbefore mentioned chamber from the faucet at the hereinbefore mentioned outlet.

Another object is to facilitate the manufacture and assemblage of the component parts of the faucet, and to render the faucet highly practical and simple and durable in construction.

With these objects in view, and to attain other objects hereinafter appearing, this invention consists in certain features of con- 1924. Serial No. 724,149.

struction, and combinations and relative arrangements of parts, hereinafter described in this specification, pointed out in the claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a view which is largely a central vertical longitudinal section of the faucet, but the valve is shown partly in elevation and also as in position engaging the valve-seat preparatory to pressing the valve tightly against said seat.

Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 but shows' the valve as having been actuated to tightly press the valve against the valve-seat. Figs. 3, 1 and 5 are transverse sections taken along the line 3 3, line 4-4 and line 5-5, respectively, in Fig. 1, looking rearwardly. Fig. 6 is a transverse section taken along line 66 in Fig. 2, looking rearwardly. Fig. 7 is a view similar lto Fig. 1 but shows the valve as having been actuated forwardly into Van open position before the required limited rotation of the valve to the right for the purpose, as will hereinafter appear, of holding the valve in the desired open p0- sition by means internally of the valve-casing. Fig. 8 is a view similarto Fig. 7 but shows the valve as being held open by said means internally of the valve-casing. Figs. 9 and 10 are transverse sections taken along line 9 9 and line 10-10, respectively, in Fig. 8, looking forwardly. Portions are broken away in the drawings to reduce their size and to more clearly show the construction.

Referring to said drawings, A indicates the metal casing of the faucet, and said Casing comprises a substantially horizontal and externally screw-threaded tubular member 11 adapted to be threaded into and to extend forwardly from the head of a metal oilbarrel not shown. Said casing extends upwardly and forwardly from said tubular member 11. and has an interior chamber 12 having a fluid-outlet 1 3 formed at the bottom of the casing and adjacent the forward end of said member 11. The casing is internally provided, at the rear end of the chamber 12, with a forwardly and upwardly projecting annular member 15 arranged to form a forwardly and somewhat upwardly facing valve-seat rearward of and higher than the outlet 13. Said chamber extends forwardly and upwardly from thevalve-seatmember 15 and has a fluid-inlet formed by an aperture 16 in and centrallyof the rear end wallof said chamber. Said inlet 16 is surrounded by the Valve-seat, and the chamber 12 extends rearwardly, as at 17, around said seat. y

My improved faucet comprises a valve arranged to control communication through the fluid-inlet 16 of the chamber 12 and having a metal body comprising a rigid core 18 which is arranged substantially centrally and extends endwise of-and is surrounded bysaid chamber. On the rear end of said core 18 is formed a vcircular head 19 which has bearing in the casing in any position of the valve. Said head 19 is provided, at its rearward side, with a disk or member 2l secured inplace in any approved manner and preferably composed of elastic and com pressible material such,'for instance, as rub ber and arranged to form the face of the valve. On the forward end portion of the core 18`is formed a circular head 22 which has bearing in the casing when the valve is iii-position engaging the valve-seat, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The forward head 22 has a member 23 arranged externally of the cas ing in any position of the valve and contoured to form a handle for manipulating the valve.

Said' valve has a slidingor substantially rectilinear endwise movement toand'ifrom the valve-seat. When the valve is inY an open position and therefore spaced forwardly from the inlet 16, as shown in Figs.

" 7 and 8, the rearward head 19 has bearing in the casing forward of the outlet 13, and the forward head 22 of the valve is out of and spaced forwardly from the casing. As shown in Figs. 1' and 2, the forward head 22-forms a closure fory the` forward end of the chamber 12 when the valve is in 'engagement with the valve-seat. At the end of its endwise movement from an open position to the valve-seat the valve is capable of a limited rotation to the right and forceable, as will hereinafter appear, into fluidtight relation to said seat during saidrota-v tion of the valve.

The core 18 has a circumferential annu-` lar baffle-flange 25 disposed between and spaced from the heads 19 and 22 and containedwithin the chamber 12 in both closed and open positions of the valve andv arranged to have bearing in the casing in any position of the valve.

The core 18 also has a circumferential flange 27 arranged between and spaced from the forward head 22 and baille-flange 25 and preferably having bearing, at its circumference, in the casing in any position of the valve. The flange 27 has 4a Vforwardly facn ling surface 28 extending circumferentially and endwise of the axis of the valve.- i

The casing is pro-vided,- preferably at the top thereof, withl a pin V29. Said pin is spaced forwardly.l from the baille-flange 25 and shown arranged near but`- rearwardly from the forward extremity of the casing. Saidvpin is substantall radial in relation tothe valve and ythrea edintofthe casing and has a plain inner end portion arranged in the chamber 12 between the forward head 22 and the baffle-flange 25.

The core 18 (see Figs. 1, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9) has a flange 31 which is substantially parallel with the hereinbefore mentioned sliding or substantially rectilinear endwise movement Vof the valve and extends preferably from Vthe forward Side of the baille` flange 25 forwardly to the forward liead 22.

The core 18 (see Figs. 1, 2,4, 7, 8` and) has a flange 32 which is spaced leftward'circumferentially of the core from the flange 31 preferably a distance less than one-'half the distance around' the core and` extends rearwardly from the rearside of thefflange 27. The flange 32 is arranged whollyV for? ward of the -baliie-flange25 ands aced from said baffle-flange a-'distance whic 4measures less than the diameter of the pin 29.' rPref-i erably the flange 27 extends from the "for` ward extremity of the flange 32 in opposite directions circumferentially of the core 18 andihas one end thereof at the right-handv side of the flange 31 and1 hasits otherfend terminating rin atransverse edge 3310etween the -left-hand side of the flange 31 and the forward extremity oftheflange 32. The 'flange 27 therefor extends from the flange 31 at one side ofthe c0re18`-right ward circumferentially and tofthenopposite side of the core and is contoured and ar ranged torclear the pin 29 during the actuation of the valve from oneend to theother end of the hereinbefore mentioned rectilinear movement ofthe valve.

The relati-ve arrangement of the parts is such that the flange-*31 is opposite therighthand'side of'and substantially next to the pin 29 when the' valve is in the positions shown inFigs. 1 and7 and throughout endwise movement of the valve fromA one to the-other offsaid positions, vthat during said movement ofthe valve said flange 31 is adapted to cooperate with' the righthand side of saidpin in guidingthe valve and in preventing material or objectionable leftward circumferentialE displacement f 0f the valve, that the' s urface 28 of the flange27 extends from the transverse edge 33 of the flange 27 leftward circumferentially `of the core 18 and somewhat' in aforward drection tothe right-hand sideof` the flange`3l, that said' surface 28 andthe rear side-or surface of the pinv 29 are .therefore relatively arranged' as required to cooperate-in prese` ing or forcing the valveV in to fluid-tightlre-` lation to the ,valve-seat during thej rotation of the valve-to theright after the vvalveihae been .moved endwise/fromv an vopen position to saidseat, and-obviously when the valve is 'in its tightly closed position-shown in Fig. 2, after said rotation of the valve, a forceable turn of the valve to the left will beV required preliminary to movement of the valve into an open position. f

The upper portion of the rearwardly facing forward wall of the outlet 13 projects rearwardly of the lower portion of said wall and hasa yrearwardly facing and preferably substantially vertical surface 34k arranged to form a baffle' and spaced forwardly from and opposite and extending lower than the inlet 16 of the chamber 12 and adapted to minimize the' liability of the discharge of liquid directly from said inlet into the lower end of a drain-passage 35 which is formed in the casing and extends from the bottom of said chamber, at a point kspaced forwardly from the inner end of the outlet 13, substantially vertically downwardly to sai-d outlet and discharges at its lower end into saidoutlet next below the bottom 36 of said projecting upper portion of said wall.

Preferably the relative arrangement of the parts issuch that the passage 35 communicates, rearward of the flange 27, with the chamber 12 in any position of the valve; that said passage communicates with said chamber between said flange 27 and the baffle-flange when the valve engages the valve-seat, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2; that said baffle-flange has bearing in the casing forward of the inner end of the outlet 13 and between said'end of said outlet and the upper end-of the passage when the valve isin Vengagement with said seat; that said baffle-flange is rearward, in any position of the VIvalve, of the means (surfaces 28 and pin 29) for forcing' the valve into fluid-tight relationfto said seat, and that the passage 35 is in-communication, atvits upper end, with the chamber 12 between the rearward head 19-and the baiiie-flange 25 when the valve is in-an open position, Aas shown in Figs. 7 and 8. During theactuation of the valve from its valve-se-at-engaging Vposition shown yin Fig. 1 to the open position shown in Fig. 7 the baffle-flange 25 obstructs the passage, in the direction of the forward end of the chamber 12, of the liquid passing forwardly in said chamber at the Vinner end of the outlet 13. However, during the rush or flow of liquid at 'the rear end of and intothe chamber 12 during the opening of the valve, and more especially during the flow of liquid under pressure into said chamber, the passage of some liquid forwardly at the inner end of the. outlet 13 and transversely of the outer circumferential edge of the baffle-flange 25 in the-direction of the forward end of said chamber is not impossible, because the use y of packing is avoided and said fiange is not,

th`erefore,=in fluid-tight relation to vthe casing. Obviously the rush or flow of liquid through the outlet 13 from the inlet 16 in an open position of the valve results in the creation of suction within the passage 35, so that any liquid passing forwardly at the upper end of the baffle-surface 3&1 and between the rearward head 19 and baffle-flange 25 in opening the valve, or in an open position of the valve, is drawn by said suction into said passage. Said suction, the drainpassage 35,the baffle-surface 34: and the hereinbefore described arrangement of said passage in relation to said chamber and to said bafiie-surface participate in effecting satisfactory-drainage, through said passage, of liquid which has passed to and forwardly of the forward head 19 when the valve has been opened as shown in Figs. 7 and 8.

My improved faucet comprises resilient means acting to retain the valve in engagement with the valve-seat so as to obstruct the flow of liquid through the inlet 16 of the chamber 12 and to minimize the loss of liquid should the v alve carelessly not have been actuated from the position shown in Fig. 1 into fluid-tight relation to said seat as shown in Fig. 2, and said resilient means preferably comprise a coiled spring 37 which (see Figs. 1 and 7) is arranged internally and extends endwise of the tubular member 11 and is attached at its rear end to said member 11 and at its forward end to the valve. Preferably the member 11 is provided internally of its lower portion, near the rear extremity of said member 11, with a lug 38 projecting inwardly and toward said extremity of said member 11, and the spring 37 embraces and is removably connected to said lug. Said spring is shown attached, at its forward end, to the head of a screw 39 employed in securing the valve-faceforming member 21 to the forward head 19 of the core 18. Obviously the actuation of the valve from its valve-seat-engaging position shown in Fig. 1 into the open position shown in Fig. 7 is against the act-ion of the spring 37, and said spring is not materially interfered with by and does not interfere with the hereinbefore mentioned limited rotation of the valve.

It will be observed that the valve, upon actuating it from its' valve-seat-engaging position shown in Fig. 1 into the open position shown in Fig. 7, has been moved far enough forwardly endwise to bring the flange 27 of the core 18 wholly forward of the pin 29, and the relative arrangement of the parts is preferably such that, when beenV actuated from the position shown in Fig. l into the iosition` shown in- F102 7, is

capable of limited rotation to the right un- Y til the lla-nge 32 abuts against the pin 29. Obviously therefore, the left-hand side of the pin 29 and the flange 32 cooperate in forming a stop for limit-ing manual rotation of the valve to the right aftere'ndwise actuation of the valve into the open position shown in Fig. 7 from theV valveseat and the relative arrangementof the parts issuch that, during said limited rotation of the valve to the right after the valve has been actuated to said open position, the flange 27 is brought forward of and opposite the forward side of the pin 29,l as shown in Fig. 9, so that the valve, after releasing it from manual hold after said rotation of the valve, is pulled rearwardly by the spring 37 so as to bring the rear side of said flange 27 into pressureexerting'relation tothe forward side of said pin and thereby cause the valves to be effectively held inthe open `posit-ion shown in Fig. 8 and against the action of said springt Obviously the valve, to return it to itsvalve-seat-engaging position shown `in Fig. 1 after' the actuation ofthe valve into the position shown in `Fig. S, is, first, manually rotated to the left from the position shown in Fig. 8 into the position shown in Fig. 7, whereupon the release of the valve from manual hold renders the valve free to be moved rearwardly by the spring 37 by vwhich said valve is then returned into thev position shown in Fig. l.

i l. A faucet comprising a casing having an internal valve-seatV and an interior chamber which has a fluid-outlet adjacent and a fluidinletsurrounded by said seat, a valve-controlling communication through said inlet and having a substantially rectilinear movement and engaging said seat atone end--of said movement and Ain an open position at the other end of said movement and capable of rotation when the valve is at the last-'mentioned end of said movement, Va coiled spring acting to retain the valve in engagement with said seat', and means arranged to prevent movement of the valve from said open position to said seat after the required rotation of the valve when the valve has been moved from said seat to said open position, the casing having a tubular member which communicates with and eX- tends rearwardly of the aforesaid inlet and has a lug internally of its lower portion, and the aforesaid spring being att-ached at its rearward `end removably to said lug and at its forward end to the valve.

2. A faucet comprising a casing having an internal valve-seat andan interior chamber which extends forwardly from said seat and has a fluid-outlet adjacent and a'fluidinlet, surrounded by said seat, a valve controlling communicationthrough said inlet and having a substantially rectilinear move'- ment from and toward said seat and engaging said seat at one end 0f said movement and in an open position at the other end of said movement and capable of rotation ,when the valve is at the last-mentioned end `of said movement and comprising a core which extends endwise of andis surrounded bythe aforesaid chamber, and a pin rigid with the casing and spaced forwardly from the-inner end of the core, said core and said pin havingcooperating surfaces yarranged to prevent movement ofthe valve from the aforesaid open position to said seat after therequired rotation of the valve when the valve has been moved from said seaty to said open position,

3. A faucet comprising 'a casing having an internal valve-seat andan interior chamber which extends forwardly from said seat y"and has a fluid-outlet adjacent and a Huid-inlet surrounded yby said seat, a valve controlling communication through said inlet and 4having a substantially rectilinear movement and engaging said seat at one end of said movement and in an open positionV at the other end of said movement and capable `of rotation at each end ,of said movement and comprising a core which extendsr endwise of and is surroi'indedl by the aforesaid chamber, and a pin rigid with the casing and spaced forwardly fromthe inner end of the core, said core and said pin having-cooperating surfaces arranged to force the valve into fluid-tight relation to the aforesaid seat during the required .rotation of the valve when the valve has been actuated to said seat from the aforesaid openposition,` andl said pinl and said core also having-c0- operating surfaces arranged to prevent movement of the valve vfrom said-openposition to said seat after the required rotation of the valve when the valve has been moved from said seat to said open position. t

4. A faucet'comprising acasing having an internal valve-seat and an` interior chamber which extends forwardly from said seat and has a fluid-outlet adjacent and a'fluidinlet surrounded by said seat, a pinfrigd with the Vcasing and extending into said chamber,` a valve controlling `communication through said inlet `andY havinga` substantially rectilinear movement and engaging the aforesaid seat at one end of said movement and in an open position at the other end of said movement and comprising a ycore which' extends endwise ofa'ndis surrounded by said4 chamber and vhas a' Harige` extending circumferentially ofthe coreyfrom one side to the opposite side of the core fand contoured tand arranged to clear saidpin durings aid'movement ofthe va'lve, and resilient means actingto retain the valve in engagement with the valve-seat, the valve being capablef of limited rotation after movement of the valve froml lthe valve-seat tothe aforesaid open rpositiomand the aforesaidf flange beingin position to vmove opposite thea-forward sideof the' aforesaid pin during said rotation ofthe' valve when thel valve hasbeen l"moved from/the valve-seat to said open position.

5. A faucetcomprising agcasing having an internal valve-seat and an. interior chamber which extends forwardly from said seat and Vhassa fluid-outlet adjacent and a lluidinlet surrounded by said seat, a pin rigid with the casing and extending into said chamber, and a valve controlling communication through said inlet and having a substantially rectilinear movement and engaging the aforesaid seat at one end of said movement and in an open position at the other end of said movement and comprising a core which extends endwise of and is surrounded by said chamber and has a flange extending circumferentially of the core from one side to the opposite side of the core and contoured and arranged to clear said pin during said movement of the valve, the valve being capable of rotation after movement of the valve from said seat to said open position, the aforesaid flange being in position to move opposite the forward side of the aforesaid pin during said rotation of the valve when the valve has been moved to said open position, and the aforesaid core having a member arranged to cooperate with said pin in limiting said rotation of the valve.

6. A faucet comprising a casing having an internal valve-seat and an ,interior chamber which extends forwardly from said seat and has a fluid-outlet adjacent and a. iluidinlet surrounded by said seat, a pin rigid with the casing and extending into said chamber, and a valve controlling communication through said inlet and having a substantially rectilinear movement and engaging the aforesaid seat at one end of said movement and in an open position at the other end of `said movement and comprising a core which extends endwise of and is surrounded by said chamber and has a flange extending circumferentially of the core from one side to the opposite side of the core and contoured and arranged to clear said pin during said movement of the valve, the valve being capable of rotation to the right after movement of the valve from said seat to said open position, the aforesaid flange being in posit-ion to move opposite the forward side of the aforesaid pin during said rotation of the valve when the valve has been moved to said open position, and the aforesaid core having a member arranged to co-operate with the left-hand side of said pin in limitlng said rotation of the valve.

7. A faucet comprising aA casing having an internal valve-seat and an interior chamber which has a. fluid-outlet adjacent and a fluid-inlet surrounded by said seat, a pin rigid with the casing and extending into said chamber, and a valve controlling communication through said inlet and having a substantially rectilinear movement and engaging the aforesaid seat. at one end of said movement and in anvopen position at the other end of .said movement and comprising `a core which extends end- 4wise of and is surrounded by said chamber and has a longitudinal flange opposite the right-hand side of said pin throughout said movement of the valve and also has a circumferentially flange extending from said longitudinal flange rightward circumferentially of the core and contoured and arranged to clear said pin during said movement of the valve, the valve being capable of rotation to the right when the valve has been moved from the valve-seat to the aforesaid open position, and the aforesaid circumferential flange being in position to move opposite the forward side of the aforesaid pin during said rotation of the valve after movement of the valve to said open position.

8. A faucet comprising a casing having an internal valve-seat and an interior chamber which has a fluid-outlet adjacent and a fluid-inlet surrounded by said seat, a pin rigid with the casing and extending into said chamber, and a valve having a substantially rectilinear movement and engaging said seat at one end of said movement and in an open position at the other end of said movement and comprising a core which extends endwise of said chamber and has a flange extending circumferentially of the core from one side to the opposite side of the core and contoured and arranged to clear said pin during said movement of the valve, the valve being capable of limited rotation in one and the same direction at each end of said movement of the valve, the aforesaid flange having a forwardly facing surface which extends somewhat endwise of the aforesaid core and is arranged to cooperate with the rear side of the aforesaid pin in tightening the valve in relation to the valve-seat during said rotation of the valve when the valve has been moved to said seat, and said flange being in position to move opposite the forward side of said pin during said rotation of the valve when the valve has been moved to the aforesaid open position.

9. A faucet comprising a casing having an internal valve-seat and an interior chamber which has a fluid-outlet adjacent and a fluid-inlet surrounded by said seat, a pin rigid with the casing and extending into said chamber, and a valve having a substantially rectilinear movement and engaging said seat at one end of said movement and in an open position at the other end of said movement and comprising a core which eX- tends endwise of said chambery and has a longitudinal flange opposite the right-hand side 'of the aforesaid pin throu lient said vmovement of the valve and also as an annular baffleflange at the rear end of said longitudinal flange and a circumferential flange Vextending from said longitudinal flange rightward cireumferentially of the core and contoured and arranged tol clearv said pin during said movement of the valve,

the valve being capable of limited rotation to the rightV when the valve 'has been moved to the. aforesaid open position, and `the third-mentioned flange being in positionI to move forward of the forward sidel of the In testimonyfwhereof, signthe foregof ing specification.

JOSEPH- A; COSTELLO;` 7 

